Mindful8
Welcome
Mindfulness is a lot more than a strategy to manage difficult situations. It is a way to cultivate a more balanced relationship to oneself in relation to the realities of life. Mindfulness can better be understood as a way of being and living rather than a tactic or strategy for life. It entails many different facets and elements. By choosing one specific element of mindfulness to study and practice on a weekly basis, we hope that over time you will experience an in depth understanding of the extensive nature of mindfulness.
In this training, you will benefit from:
One deep-dive into a specific element of mindfulness per session
Integrating information and practice with scientific evidence and insights
Detailed explanations covering the reasons for certain practices
Small practices that aim to increase the integration of mindfulness into daily life
Examining mindfulness in the broader context of life and how we perceive things
Understanding the foundation of processes that mindfulness rests upon
We hope you will enjoy this training and that it will provide useful insights and practices for a more mindful life!
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Additional Mindful Tools
The goal of this exercise is to help you recognise distorted thinking and reduce the negative impact of these thinking patterns.
The aim of this tool is to help you incorporate quiet time into everyday life, in order to become more aware of and familiar with your internal experiences.
The goal of this exercise is to help you become aware of the positive aspects of your daily life in a playful way.
The goal of this exercise is to help you develop interpersonal mindfulness skills by role-playing a mindful meeting.
The purpose of mindful walking is to develop awareness of each moment without having an end destination. By feeling our feet on the ground and noticing each muscle involved in each step, we begin to cultivate body awareness and focus.
The goal of this exercise is to help you become more aware of what you are feeling this very moment.
The goal of this exercise is to explore the concept of mindful listening by experiencing what it is like to listen to others in a mindful way and talk when others listen mindfully.
The goal of this exercise is for you to connect to a place of inner peace and calm. This exercise uses the metaphor of a hurricane to guide you to a state in which you become an observer.
The body scan teaches you how to recognise and experience physical sensations such as tension and restlessness in a controlled and focused way - one body part at a time.
The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate the illusion of multi-tasking and offer concrete guidelines to adopt a more mindful (single-tasking) approach to life.
The seated meditation is a method that teaches us how to draw one’s attention to a certain point - towards the breath, to detect when attention wanders, discover the nature and pattern of our thoughts, and to do so without judgement.
The goal of this exercise is to help you expand awareness from yourself (being aware of internal experiences) to your outer worlds (being aware of external experiences) so as to have a full and encompassing sense of connection and knowing.
The goal of this exercise is to improve individuals’ communication skills through practicing mindful, purposeful speaking.
The goal of loving-kindness meditation is to cultivate compassion to ourselves and others. Loving-kindness meditation has four “healing“ elements: intention, attention, emotion and connection.
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